Canada Senate Suspends Three Members

Rare Suspension Follows Expense-Claims Controversy

OTTAWA—The Canadian Senate, controlled by members of the governing Conservative Party, took the rare step late Tuesday of suspending three former Conservative senators embroiled in an expense-claims controversy that has dogged Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this year.

The upper chamber voted to suspend Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau without pay, for an indefinite period. The three senators have repeatedly said...